Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby (born July 4, 1962), is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for
ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at
Grand Slam tournaments. She also won a women's doubles gold medal at the
1988 Olympic Games in
Seoul with
Zina Garrison as her partner, although her usual doubles partner was
Martina Navratilova.
Career
Shriver first came to prominence at the 1978
US Open where, as a 16-year-old amateur, she reached the women's singles final. She defeated the reigning
Wimbledon champion
Martina Navratilova in a semifinal 7–6, 7–6. Shriver then lost to
Chris Evert in the final 7–5, 6–4. Shriver also won the first of her 21 career singles titles in 1978 at
Columbus, Ohio.
The 1978 US Open final was the only Grand Slam singles final of Shriver's career. She lost the next eight Grand Slam singles semifinals she played, four of them to Navratilova, two to
Steffi Graf, and one each to Evert and
Hana Mandlíková.
Doubles
Shriver's most notable successes after 1978 came in doubles with
Martina Navratilova, with credit given to her coach, Hank Harris, who was captain of the University of Virginia team. They subsequently won 79 women's doubles titles. and is one of only six...
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